In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
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The truth about immigration
A conservative view is that a country can either have a sustainable welfare state or high levels of immigration. But that view is wrong. The fact is that we can achieve both a well-functioning welfare state and increased immigration. By using progressive taxes and government deficits to invest in making everyone in society feel good…
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
Trickle-down economics has reached the end of the road
Comedian Jonathan Pie shows with pinpoint brilliance in the video below how Trickle-down economics with his mantra: "Help the rich! Punish the poor!” not working. Trickle-down economics does not build a strong economy nor a strong welfare. Put simply, it leads to a very difficult existence for those who have the least. Even many high achievers…
Interest rates do not control the economy
Interest rates do not control the economy. This makes the central banks' monetary policy an extremely ineffective and blunt tool. Jussi Ora has done the following excellent video interview with economics professor Richard Werner. Werner has examined the historical empirical evidence on whether interest rates control the development of the economy. The result was that interest rates do not control this. Fiscal policy is a much more effective tool for governing…
The right tries to blame post-Covid inflation on welfare and deficit policies
Our inflation post-Covid, the right tries to blame welfare and deficit policy. Just like in the 1970s. The Wall Street Journal says that the national economists will now have to reevaluate their view of the national economy after Covid. Just like after the financial crisis of 2008. But this is calm according to the right because the crisis today with higher inflation is reminiscent of the one in the 1970s and therefore know…
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
We voluntarily discipline ourselves online
Philosopher Foucault spoke of how as feudal punishments softened towards the end of the 1700th century and the beginning of the 1800th century, society shifted from disciplining our bodies through physical punishment to chastising our souls. Facebook and social media have taken this a step further.
Extremely positive technology and energy revolution underway
The correct tax level is relatively high
The business world warns in a column that the new S-MP government's very moderate tax increases will lead to a decline in the economy as it will scare capitalists from daring to invest. He brings up the economic downturn in the Swedish economy during the 70s and early 80s as an example of how things will go. Then I reply that we…